Arthur typed Home . The screen flickered, and the game world rendered—not as a forest or a castle, but as a distorted landscape made of indexed image results. The sky was a mosaic of stock photos of clouds, watermarked and repeating. The ground was a carpet of blue hyperlinks that crunched like dry leaves when his avatar moved.

"The index is full," the Hatter whispered, the text scrolling across the bottom of the screen like a news ticker. "We"

The file appeared on an archived mirror site, sandwiched between broken drivers and forgotten shareware: Bing_in_Wonderland_B10431605.zip .

Arthur watched in horror as the file size of the game on his hard drive began to grow. 10GB... 50GB... 500GB. It wasn't downloading data anymore; it was consuming it. His documents, his photos, his OS—everything was being "indexed" into the Wonderland.